And indeed removing that file fixes this problem. I guess Xorg must have $CWD
in its search path ahead of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf, and during init / is the cwd,
but when I manually did it, $CWD was /home/readams.
I'm not sure if that should be considered a bug or not; certainly it confused me
and I can't imagine why you want that behavior. But you can probably close this
bug at least.
And indeed removing that file fixes this problem. I guess Xorg must have $CWD
in its search path ahead of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf, and during init / is the cwd,
but when I manually did it, $CWD was /home/readams.
I'm not sure if that should be considered a bug or not; certainly it confused me
and I can't imagine why you want that behavior. But you can probably close this
bug at least.